Dear Mark: Would you consider filling out this questionnaire? SA=Strongly Agree A=Agree SD=Strongly Disagree D=Disagree (mark each statement with one of these designated responses). Of course you are welcome, if you feel so inclined, to add a comment after giving your response (SA,A,SD,D).
Note: This questionnaire has been specifically designed for you, but others at FFL are welcome to fill it out too (or think about they would answer each question). But every question is directed towards you, and there will be statements which anyone other than yourself cannot answer. 1. Maharishi was sincere. 2. Maharishi was a liar. 3. Maharishi could be cruel. 4. Maharishi was ruthless. 5. I have never seen Maharishi truly vulnerable or humble. 6. Maharishi had an ego. 7. Maharishi knew he was not the innocent and loving Master that he projected to his teachers. 8. Maharishi's soul was cold and unfeeling. 9. I have never seen Maharishi as incorruptible. 10. I can't believe that God truly loved Maharishi. 11. There are so many more sides to Maharishi than anyone on FFL would think, let alone imagine. 12. And some of those sides, yes, make him comparable (in some mystical sense at least) to Mao. 13. I do not love or revere Maharishi as my Master. 14. Maharishi was unkind to me. 15. I am not sure what Maharishi's ultimate agenda really was, whether it was good or evil. 16. Maharishi had a terrific sense of humour. 17. I think Maharishi's good deeds far exceeded his bad deeds. 18. Maharishi was enlightened. 19. Maharishi transformed the universe in a positive way. 20. Maharishi knew me better than I knew myself. 21. Maharishi took advantage of my weakness and vulnerability. 22. If I met Maharishi now, I would still feel love for him. 23. Maharishi never got confronted by reality such as to make him accountable for all that he did. 24. I think Bevan Morris's continued devotion to Maharishi a good thing; Bevan is not deceived about Maharishi. 25. I think the future of TM is bright. 26. Maharishi spun stories about the potential of TM that he knew were false. 27. Maharishi died, I believe, a broken man. 28. Maharishi lost some of his grace, power, and charisma as he aged. 29. Maharishi was just a very gifted and exceptional man; but a man all the same. Nothing intrinsically special or holy. 30. I believe Christ is on the same side as Maharishi and they essentially taught the same truth. 31. TM did me more good than harm. 32. I feel I know who Maharishi is; it's just that I can't quite excavate all this knowingness about him so as to make it fully conscious and intelligible to myself. 33. I know Maharishi as well as anyone knows himanyone, that is, that I know. 34. I believed in reincarnation even before psychedelics, TM, and Maharishi. 35. I would not be a sensitive and wise a person (in all my vulnerability and fragility) had I not done TM and known Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. 36. I have never read anything about Maharishi which essentially reflected all that I know about him. That is, something which captured the essence of the man. 37. I find it easy to refute the allegations made by Earl Kaplan in that famous letter of 2004. 38. Maharishi still haunts me. 39. I believe Maharishi drew me closer to God. 40. I believe I am objective about the man and the Guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. 41. I think TM a good thing, and I recommend people to take up the practice. 42. I know of no person in the world who was close to and devoted to Maharishi who became the repository for any exceptional sense of integrity and wisdom. 43. Maharishi was unable to produce a worthy successor to himself. 44. Somewhere I know that my hatred of Maharishi (at least in some respects) is warranted, and acts as a protection for me against being a total victim of his influence upon me. 45. My experiences of being close to Maharishi as his skin boy did not produce any revelations about him that shocked me. 46. Anyone who continues to think Maharishi a Saint and perfect is deceived. 47. I believe in the existence of a Personal God. 48. Maharishi was, if you examine his actions, an implicit atheist. 49. Maharishi never demonstrated a sense of guilt or shame. 50. Maharishi was ten times more powerful than any human being I have encountered in my life. 51. Maharishi was, somewhere, a very beautiful and exquisite human being. 52. Maharishi was a true and authentic Master. 53. Guru Dev would be proud of Maharishi and everything he did. 54. Maharishi's legacy will ultimately be a positive one. 55. It's all downhill from here on in for Maharishi and TM. 56. I have an immortal soul. 57. There are things I still live by and believe that I owe to my association with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. 58. There are certain facts about Maharishi that I know, but cannot reveal, or choose not to reveal, because of how shocking they are. 59. Maharishi changed the world in a good way. 60. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had evil in him. 61. Maharishi deserves to be thought of as a saviour for mankind. 62. TM has done much more good than harm. 63. I think it is safe to practise Transcendental Meditation. 64. I have no regrets about my time with Maharishi. 65. I sometimes get frustrated in knowing that my experience of Maharishi goes down so deep, but I am unable to entirely do justice to this experience, so as to make that experience available to others so they might benefit from this knowledge that is in me about him. 66. I think I am a more sincere person than Maharishi ever was. 67. I do not think of myself as inferior to Maharishi when it comes to standing before God. 68. I think Maharishi died a happy life, and that he 'dropped the body' in the most classic and perfect way that any enlightened being would. 69. Maharishi was full of it. 70. My life still amounts in the end to what happened to me by knowing Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. 71. If Maharishi were alive now and I had permission to speak to him one-on-oneand I was fearless and confidentthere are some questions I would put to him that would challenge his honesty and integrity. I would like to see how he would answer these questions. 72. I never revealed to Maharishi what I really thought about him. 73. Maharishi somewhere deep inside of him knew what I really thought about him. He knew I was seeing another side to him other than the one he showed to the world. 74. It is better to love Maharishi than to despise him. 75. Maharishi is still my Master. 76. I don't believe anyone I knew who was associated with Maharishi has 'evolved' in any significant and discernible way. 77. Maharishi was capable of anythingcriminal or seedy; it doesn't matter. Maharishi had no shame. 78. I believe Maharishi's experience of himself was that he was a good, sincere, and honest human being. 79. Maharishi got corrupted well before I came to know him as his skin boy. 80. Maharishi now is in perfect blissand deserves to be so. 81. No initiator who dies accrues any real and positive benefit from having known and been devoted to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. 82. Maharishi remains essentially a mystery to everyone. But not, ultimately, to me. 83. Maharishi had a clear conscience. 84. At one point, at his zenith, Maharishi wasalmostall-powerful and all-knowing. 85. I think it a more valid perspective to see how beautiful Maharishi was rather than to see how corrupt he was. 86. Maharishi was not corrupt. 87. Maharishi's initiators were more sincere and innocent than he was. 88. I have never met anyone who I could say: This person is objective about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This person really knows Maharishi the way I do. 89. Maharishi wrecked the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of human beings. 90. His spiritually illicit (given his vows to Guru Dev) relationship with women is indefensible. 91. Maharishi was over-all a good guy. 92. Maharishi was way more intelligent than anyone I have ever known. 93. Maharishi always meant to do good. 94. Maharishi was an idealist. 95. Maharishi towards the end of his life descended into madness. 96. Maharishi has probably already reincarnated and is living somewhere as a small child, destined for even greater glory. 97. No: Maharishi is off the wheel of death and rebirth. 98. This Hinduism may be all nonsense. 99. Maharishi's World Plan will never come to anything. 100. Maharishi has essentially made a profoundly positive contribution to the world and God (or Reality) was behind all that he did. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau <m@...> wrote: > > Yep, still here. I did say Sunday or Monday. And with the perfect and > hilarious specimen below, hell, I may never be able to leave. > But I still plan to and, if and before I do, I just wanted to put this in. > Did anyone meet Ingegerd Engfeldt of Malmo, Sweden, besides me? Talk about > special. My heart went out to her the second I saw her and, dead as she is, > will always be partially hers. > She tried to develop some cassette recording device/company with M's blessing > and supposed backing only (according to dear Conny, that wonderful man whose > info I can't always rely on--he recently informed me that Billy Clayton had > died and I had to enlist Rick's help to, thankfully, burst that bubble--Billy > recently did have bypass surgery, but survived, thank you very much, quite > nicely) to be abandoned by M after putting everything she had into it. > Shortly thereafter, she self-immolated (yes, literally). I was also told by > Conny that Klaus Apelquist (however he spelled his name), very special skin > boy after me, also self-immolated. > So I have seen this pattern (You take what you need and you leave the rest > but they should never have taken the very best), why did our man seem to have > this habit of driving down the very best? And Angelika, too, the way he > wasted her... > Sometimes I can't help but have this thought that part of M's role was to > dis-enable the best of a generation, to raise us up and cast us down (dare I > even utter such a thing?). ((Actually, come to think of it, he did that all > the time with his constant manipulations, creations and dissolutions of the > hierarchies around him--hmm am I getting somewhere with this?)* > You get my drift. I can't hold him as all bad, just like I can't hold him as > all good. He was extravagant at both ends and all the way through the > middle. But just what, exactly, was that man doing??? > So much for me knowing him. > Yes, I know, we all are everything and we all are nothing, everything is the > Satguru and there is nothing but the Self. > But, screw that, any insight on this from anywhere? > (Of course, one could say that some, like the Beatles and Mia Farrow, were > too strong to be wasted while others, like the above, Devendra, me, etc., > were only wasted because of our weakness--that, perfect being that he was, he > was wasting our weakness. But, for the moment, I won't be accepting that as > the one and only valid "answer," though I will continue to look at it.) > * So, I guess I'll chalk it up to this. Some of it might have been sincere > efforts at ego busting, but the bottom line is that he never did his shadow > work and he did, indeed, have quite a shadow body and that came out in all > kinds of life-damaging ways (look at the TMO). > But if there were some deeper, cosmic, ooga booga going on here, I'd love to > know what it was. > > > On Aug 7, 2011, at 9:47 PM, Bob Price wrote: > > > Edward, > > > > Welcome to FFL. > > > > Like you said; my house is special, my car is special, my wife is special, > > my > > kids are special, my guru was special and hell even my dog is special. The > > fact I'm special goes > > without saying. > > > > But just to clarify, none of us are hiding our specialness, its right there > > on our sleeves. > > Thats why we came to FFL, because we all know how special we are. We're not > > so special that > > we don't know some of us are more special than the rest of us. So to keep > > everything clear > > we call the most special "terminally special" and the rest are just > > enablers. > > So if you feel special, you've come to the right place. > > > > PS: If Steve is right- you're going to share a come to Jesus moment, I want > > you to know that we feel > > Jesus is special too. In fact, we've already established that the next time > > round Jesus is coming back > > as an Mexican IT worker named-you guessed it, Jesús. > > > > Are you Mexican Edward? > > > > From: Edward <eptfnj@...> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2011 6:26:17 PM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Devendra > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans <dmevans365@> wrote: > > > > > >I am so tired of the exclusionary and egotistical statements... > > > > This is my view. > > > > People engage in all manner of behavior to feel special. > > Basically we are all shallow - no exceptions. > > > > Some can afford an in-your-face house, car, boat, plane or be with > > beautiful people during the day and night (Oh la la). > > > > Those that cannot, develop attitudes whether academic, trends or belonging > > to special groups. > > > > We know the "My Guru is more Enlightened/Special/Mahasiddhi/whatever than > > yours". > > > > There is also the incredible spectrum of experiences that will indicate a > > special level of Consciousness or Liberation. Yawn. > > > > Whats the point of living if you CAN'T feel special by owning something > > unique, professing to have unusual experiences or belonging to a very > > special club or group within a club or have received special initiations > > and instructions. Whoa - what about being a > > Skin-Boy! > > > > The key is to NEVER admit to the game. > > Keep up the appearance. > > The more others feel out - the more you feel in. > > Argue endlessly over who knows the Truth and avoid > > actually discussing what this so-called Truth is all about. > > > > Funny thing. > > Those long term dedicated and oh-so-articulate practitioners > > of the Ancient systems of Yoga and Religion > > > > are often > > > > the most intolerant, foul-mouthed, shallow people you will have the > > misfortune to bump into. > > > > Yoga? > > Meditation? > > Bulls**t pure and simple. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
